Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Willie]

2 hours ago, Elliott said:

Why?

The taste. Tried them, and didn’t like them.

[SimpleGuy]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That's just my breakfast

So you eat bread? Eww that`s unhealthy. I got so much brainfog from this.

[SimpleGuy]

3 hours ago, Willie said:

The taste. Tried them, and didn’t like them.

Me too but for tea. I don`t understand how people can drink tea without sugar. But if you do drink it with sugar, it`s just sugary water (and also unhealthy). I can`t believe that conformity could be so fucking strong that you would drink shit and think it`s tasty. 

Edited 6 hours ago by SimpleGuy

[Daniel Balan]

19 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Cigarettes really are pure conformity. No one would smoke unless there was a decades long marketing campaign and it was baked into the culture.

Not for me. I smoke because I want to enjoy serenity at night. I only smoke at night, alone! The cigarette allows me to deeply concentrate on the present moment as I blow the smoke into the vast emptiness of the firmament. That is my favorite moment of the day the moment I light up my cigarette and stand in awe before the night sky. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Conformity triggers everyone, it seems 

 

[Daniel Balan]

3 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Conformity triggers everyone, it seems 

 

No! I'm not triggered. I am not conformist in the ways you say guys. From childhood I tried to never immitate the herd. If all my friends were going to take drugs, I refused to participate, if all my friends went to the right, I went to the left, if everyone wants the best fashion clothes, I buy the cheapest clothes form the second hand store. if everyone was a fundamentalist Christian, I became the most anti-religious person. 

All my life I tried to avoid conformity. When I listened to Leo's video, I already knew almost all the points he made in that video because combating conformity was my nr.1 conformity since I was a child. 

Everything Leo said in his conformity video I already knew that from long before because I actively contemplated that topic for decades.

[Elliott]

4 hours ago, Willie said:

The taste. Tried them, and didn’t like them.

Most taste bad to me too. Some are really good though, and tea can be good for you.

[Elliott]

1 hour ago, SimpleGuy said:

Me too but for tea. I don`t understand how people can drink tea without sugar. But if you do drink it with sugar, it`s just sugary water (and also unhealthy). I can`t believe that conformity could be so fucking strong that you would drink shit and think it`s tasty. 

You're probably addicted to sugar. Imagine only ever drinking water then adding in some hot herbs you kind of like.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

18 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

No! I'm not triggered. I am not conformist in the ways you say guys. From childhood I tried to never immitate the herd. If all my friends were going to take drugs, I refused to participate, if all my friends went to the right, I went to the left, if everyone wants the best fashion clothes, I buy the cheapest clothes form the second hand store. if everyone was a fundamentalist Christian, I became the most anti-religious person. 

All my life I tried to avoid conformity. When I listened to Leo's video, I already knew almost all the points he made in that video because combating conformity was my nr.1 conformity since I was a child. 

Everything Leo said in his conformity video I already knew that from long before because I actively contemplated that topic for decades.

You words read as defensive and attached - as if you view conformity as negative. And it is not so, conformity can have great benefit.

I do not mean this as an attack or critisizm, simply how the feeling is appearing to be expressed behind the words. Sometimes text is not accurate. If you say you do not feel this way, it is so.

It is not typical one needs to defend, justify, or give reason unless feeling encroached upon.

[SimpleGuy]

45 minutes ago, Elliott said:

You're probably addicted to sugar. Imagine only ever drinking water then adding in some hot herbs you kind of like.

I drink only water for year straight probably already.

[Daniel Balan]

17 minutes ago, SimpleGuy said:

I drink only water for year straight probably already.

Bratan, what about drinking vodka directly from the bottle? Is that conformity? 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Daniel Balan

[SimpleGuy]

6 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

Bratan, what about drinking vodka directly from the bottle? Is that conformity? 

 

basically rural russian`s zeitgeist

[Princess Arabia]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That's just my breakfast

👁️see.

[UnbornTao]

13 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

👁️see.

Eye see.

Sorry, just issued us two warning points for the joke.

Edited 3 hours ago by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

@Daniel Balan Being the nonconformist lone wolf is ironically a more common cultural role than being part of the flock.

2 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Conformity triggers everyone, it seems 

The comformity of reactivity. 

@Daniel Balan For example, wearing clothes is mostly comformity, too. And so is wanting to feel special, which we all seem to do to varying degrees.

Edited 3 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Daniel Balan]

19 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

@Daniel Balan Being the nonconformist lone wolf is ironically a more common cultural role than being part of the flock.

The comformity of reactivity. 

@Daniel Balan For example, wearing clothes is mostly comformity, too. And so is wanting to feel special, which we all seem to do to varying degrees.

gaslighting. 

[Daniel Balan]

1 hour ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

You words read as defensive and attached - as if you view conformity as negative. And it is not so, conformity can have great benefit.

I do not mean this as an attack or critisizm, simply how the feeling is appearing to be expressed behind the words. Sometimes text is not accurate. If you say you do not feel this way, it is so.

It is not typical one needs to defend, justify, or give reason unless feeling encroached upon.

gaslighting

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Daniel Balan said:

gaslighting

This is not gaslighting. 

I even raised that if you did not feel the way it it came across, then that is true, and the misunderstanding is due to the limitations of text. This is actually validating your experience. The very opposite of gaslighting.

[Daniel Balan]

8 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

This is not gaslighting. 

I even raised that if you did not feel the way it it came across, then that is true, and the misunderstanding is due to the limitations of text. This is actually validating your experience. The very opposite of gaslighting.

It seemed gaslighting to me because I gave extensive explanation why I do a conformist activity in a non conformist way. Eg. Smoking, I never smoke around others, If I am at a table with 10 smokers , I will be the single person not to smoke, I only smoke one cigarette every other day when I stroll at night looking at the sky, alone. It helps me meditate and be more immersed in the moment. I stated clearly that I do not do that because I saw others doing it and I want to immitate them. 

And you and the other guy said that I am still confirming. And that I have the urge to defend my conformity. Which is not true. I could very well have ignored these remarks but for some reason today I felt more in the mood to give counter arguments. Usually when someone tells me that the jews run the world I usually don't even bother responding ,but because you made some intelectually sound critiques much more evolved than the critiques of the conspiracy theorists in my community, I felt like I could explain the situation a bit more in detail. But when you guys again stated that what I do is still conformity, I perceived it as an attempt to discredit the way I percieve my actions and an attempt to sugest to me that I am unable to correctly assess my own behaviour. Which is gaslighting. 

[integral]

Believing you have the right to vote when the rich select the candidates you choose.

Believe your making choices at a grocery store.

Believing any choice you ever made was not hijacked by trillions in marketing for centuries.

Believing your thoughts are uniquely synthesized and not the product of mass conformist group think hallucination indoctrinated from birth.

Getting a mortgage.

Loving your children.

Breathing air (genetic conformity)

Edited 2 minutes ago by integral